Abbas calls for elections
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Abbas calls for elections
WEST BANK/GAZA: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas calls for early elections to Hamas dismay, Fatah support and Hamas and Fatah demonstrations in Gaza, clashes in Khan Younis
MIDDLE EAST: President Mahmoud Abbas calls for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and Presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war
SYRIA: Palestinian factions in Syria hold meeting in Damascus to condemn Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's call for fresh elections
GAZA: Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh's convoy fired on, and more than 30 Palestinians wounded in Ramallah Fatah-Hamas clashes
JERUSALEM: U.S. Senators visiting in Jerusalem express concern over the Hamas - Fatah factional fighting in the Palestinian territories
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Abbas calls for elections
Palestinain President Abbas calls for Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections. President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday (December 16) for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war. Internal tensions are at their worst in a decade after months of talks between the ruling Hamas Islamist movement and Abbas's Fatah faction on forging a unity cabinet foundered. Tom Metcalfe reports.
Web Video | December 16, 2006
